Tag: Amanda Deibert

Slugfest | All-star lineup assembles for ‘Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees Halloween Special’

Plus: TaleSpin, Amazing Venom and more!

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. Hit the links for more info.

Patrick Horvath’s Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees will get a Halloween anthology one-shot in October, featuring stories by James Tynion IV, Tony Fleecs, Che Grayson, Dave Wachter and Jared Cullum, among others.

The anthology is set in the years after Samantha Strong, the cuddly bear/hardware store owner/brutal serial killer, left Woodbrook at the end of the second series, with the town’s citizens gathering around a campfire to swap stories about her legend.

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Dark Horse announces their first new Star Wars titles

‘Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories’ will kick off Dark Horse’s all-ages Star Wars line in August.

Dark Horse and Lucasfilm have announced the first two Star Wars comics projects coming from Dark Horse under the new licensing deal struck between the two companies late last year.

While Marvel continues with their line of comics aimed at older audiences, Dark Horse has picked up the license for “all-ages comics and graphic novels in partnership with Lucasfilm.” It’s a license that previously was held by IDW.

The new comics include Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories, an anthology featuring stories set in every era of the Star Wars timeline, and Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit, a collection of “frighteningly fun” stories for Halloween.

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Smash Pages Q&A: Amanda Deibert

Deibert to adapt cult classic Lesbian mystery into graphic novel

Work for a Million is a cult classic novel by Eve Zaremba. The 1986 novel was one of a series of mysteries starring the openly lesbian private eye Helen Keremos. Bedside Press is running a kickstarter to reprint the novel and publish an original graphic novel adaptation written by Amanda Deibert and drawn by Selena Goulding.

Amanda Deibert has written a number of comics including Wonder Woman ’77 and Teen Titans Go!, she’s contributed to the anthologies Womanthology and Secret Loves of Geeks, and wrote the webcomic Hot Mess. As a TV and film writer she’s worked on OWN Tonight, 24 Hours of Reality, SyFy Presents Live from Comic-Con, Take Part Live, The Morning After, and other shows, and she was kind enough to take a few minutes to talk about the project.

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